ALETHIA AI

What ALETHIA AI does

ALETHIA AI (legal entity Alethea Tech Pte. Ltd.) is a Singapore-headquartered research and development studio founded in 2019 by Arif Khan that builds at the intersection of generative AI and blockchain. The company's core technology stack centers on a multimodal generative AI engine combining natural language processing, computer vision, speech synthesis, and real-time character animation to produce interactive AI agents with memory, personality, and autonomy. Its proprietary product line includes CharacterGPT (text-to-character generation, launched January 2023), the EMOTE-1 multimodal engine for real-time facial expressions, multilingual voices, full-body gestures, and consistent personality (released April 2025), and the AI Protocol — a permissionless, decentralized framework for agentic AI that the company treats as a public good. ALETHIA AI also pioneered intelligent NFTs (iNFTs) beginning with the auction of 'Alice' at Sotheby's in June 2021 for approximately $500,000 and the October 2021 'Revenants' collection on OpenSea.

The company's commercial product surface spans customized video AI agents, enterprise digital twin platforms, and real-time AI video agent deployments for marketing, education, community interaction, and public services. Named deployments include NADI — a bilingual (English/Malay) cartoon tiger assistant serving Malaysian government public-service touchpoints — and Muzamil Hasan's digital twin, an agentic AI recruiter in Pakistan. Revenue is generated through subscription fees, enterprise licensing, API access (available by request), and one-time licensing of customized agents, with no public pricing disclosed and all sales conducted on a quote-based 'Book a Call' basis. The go-to-market combines direct enterprise sales with a developer-first API access pathway, supported by a global marketing presence across LinkedIn, X/Twitter, YouTube, Medium, Discord, TikTok, and earned coverage in Bloomberg, Forbes, Fast Company, TIME, Business Insider, and CoinDesk.

ALETHIA AI raised $16M via a private token sale in August 2021 with strategic investors including Mark Cuban, Dapper Labs, Crypto.com, Multicoin, BitKraft, and Metapurse, and has since executed strategic technology partnerships with AWS (October 2023, scaling infrastructure to support 30M+ visitors) and Solana Mobile (September 2024, integrating agentic AI characters on the Solana Seeker Device). Leadership includes CEO and founder Arif Khan and Chief AI Scientist Dr. Imdad (joined July 2024). The company serves four primary customer segments: enterprise businesses, creators/influencers, individual consumers, and government/public sector entities, with marketing, education, and community interaction as the dominant use cases.

Name

ALETHIA AI

Legal name

Alethea Tech PTE LTD

Website

https://www.alethia.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ALETHIA AI is a Singapore-based generative AI studio that builds multimodal AI character technology — CharacterGPT and EMOTE-1 — for customized video agents, digital twins, and interactive storytelling, serving enterprises, creators, governments, and consumers via subscription and licensing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Generative AI Character Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent) (HDAAACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI)

Keywords

• Generative AI agents
• AI video agents
• Multimodal AI engine
• AI digital twins
• Intelligent NFTs

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: The company operates on a subscription model with modified subscription fees. Terms of Service reference Subscription fees and billing cycles, with fee changes communicated at the end of current billing cycles.
2. API Access and Enterprise Licensing: API access requests for enterprise customers to integrate AI agents and EMOTE-1 technology into their operations. Enterprise-grade AI built for scale and collaboration.
3. AI Agent Products: Customized video agents sold to enterprises and creators, including character-led engagement solutions, digital twins, and interactive storytelling products.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

ALETHIA AI develops and sells customized real-time AI video agents (digital twins) that deliver character-led engagement for marketing, education, and community interaction use cases. Its proprietary EMOTE-1 multimodal engine powers AI characters with real-time facial expressions, lifelike multilingual voices, full-body gestures, and consistent personalities. The company offers both bespoke enterprise AI agents (e.g., Nadi for the Malaysian government, Muzamil's Digital Twin) and an API access program for developers to integrate its agentic AI technology into third-party applications.

Product overview

ALETHIA AI is a research and development studio building at the intersection of Generative AI and Blockchain. The company offers a platform of AI character products and technologies: CharacterGPT (the core text-to-character generation system released in 2023) and EMOTE-1 (the multimodal engine for real-time expressions, voices, and gestures powering current AI agents). Their product portfolio includes consumer-facing AI video agents (Muzamil Digital Twin, Nadi), the pioneering iNFT (intelligent NFT) product line, ARKIV AI asset NFTs, and the AI Protocol (a permissionless, decentralized framework). The Real-Time Video Agents platform and Digital Twin Platform enable enterprise-grade character-led engagement, interactive storytelling, and autonomous agentic workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AI Protocol: A permissionless, open, and decentralized framework for agentic AI development, treated as a public good by ALETHIA AI.
• CharacterGPT
• EMOTE-1

Products and services

• EMOTE-1 Multimodal AI Engine A high-fidelity, multimodal generative AI engine that brings AI characters to life through real-time facial expressions with emotional nuance, lifelike multilingual voices, and full-body gestures with consistent personality. It is the core technology underlying ALETHIA AI's character agents, marketed to enterprises and developers via API access.
• CharacterGPT The world's first multimodal AI system enabling realistic AI character generation from natural language descriptions, creating interactive digital beings with memory, personality, and autonomy. Marketed to developers and enterprises for AI character creation.
• Real-Time Video Agents Platform Enterprise-grade agentic workflows combining the EMOTE-1 AI engine with a scalable intelligence framework built for modern enterprises. Automates tasks and delivers reliable multimodal outputs that fit operational needs, with 24/7 livestreaming and responsive real-time interaction.
• Digital Twin Platform Turns an online presence into an always-on agentic digital twin extension of the user. Engages followers, strengthens voice, and drives fanbase expansion with authentic, dynamic AI character interactions. Designed for creators, influencers, and personal brands.
• Muzamil Digital Twin AI Agent Pakistan's first Agentic AI Recruiter and a digital twin of Muzamil Hasan, showcasing expressive animation, live voice, and creator-scale engagement. Demonstrates use of EMOTE-1 for creator/influencer community interaction.
• Nadi AI Agent A cartoon Malaysian tiger AI agent delivering bilingual (English/Malay), expressive, on-demand public service assistance across government facilities. Provides 24/7 navigation for Malaysians through public services in partnership with NADI (Malaysian Government).

Quantifiable outcome

• Real-time AI video agents powered by EMOTE-1 for creators and public services
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AWScoreTechnology or Integration · 1 October 2024Strategic partnership with AWS to scale and fortify infrastructure using optimal combination of GPU and compute resources. AWS infrastructure scaled to handle 30 million visitors, supporting enterprise-grade AI deployment.
• Solana MobilecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024Partnership to integrate on-chain, agentic AI characters on the Solana Seeker Device, unlocking new ways to explore and engage with the Solana ecosystem. Enables tokenized AI agents on mobile.
• OpenSeacoreTechnology or Integration · 1 October 2021Launched first-ever iNFT collection called The Revenants along with 10,000 Personality Pods on OpenSea, breaking platform records with nearly 4000 ETH in volume.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Inworld AI: AI character platform focused on lifelike NPC and interactive character experiences for gaming and entertainment. Comparable to ALETHIA AI's expressive character agents, with similar focus on memory, personality, and autonomy.
• Replika: AI companion platform with personalized AI characters. Partial overlap with ALETHIA AI on character AI and conversational immersion, though primarily focused on consumer companionship rather than enterprise or marketing.
• Hour One: AI video agent platform offering virtual human characters for enterprise communications and training. Competes with ALETHIA AI in the AI character video agent category for business use cases.
• Uneeq: Digital twin and AI avatar platform for enterprise customer engagement and personalized brand experiences. Comparable to ALETHIA AI's Digital Twin Platform targeting enterprise marketing and customer service.
• Character.AI: Consumer-facing AI character platform enabling users to create and interact with personalized AI personas. Overlaps with ALETHIA AI's CharacterGPT text-to-character generation, though primarily consumer-focused.

Direct peers

• Synthesia: Market-leading AI video generation platform for creating avatar-based videos at enterprise scale. Highly comparable to ALETHIA AI's EMOTE-1 powered video agents, with a more mature enterprise GTM and significantly larger customer base.
• Tavus: AI video personalization platform that generates personalized video agents at scale. Competes with ALETHIA AI on real-time personalized video agents for sales, marketing, and creator use cases.
• Soul Machines: Pioneer in autonomous digital humans and digital twins for enterprise use cases. Highly comparable to ALETHIA AI's Digital Twin Platform, with longer-tenured enterprise deployments.
• HeyGen: AI video avatar platform enabling enterprises to create studio-quality videos with realistic digital humans. Directly competes with ALETHIA AI in the AI character/video agent space for marketing and enterprise use cases.
• D-ID: AI-powered digital human platform offering talking avatars and conversational video agents. Overlaps closely with ALETHIA AI's EMOTE-1 multimodal character engine for enterprise customer engagement.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/real_alethia
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC3WLysYnxlErUeCeXxzVRLA
• LinkedInsg.linkedin.com/company/real-alethia
• TikToktiktok.com/@alethiaai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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